There’s been an uptick in swearing among candidates for president. If it’s a strategy to attract younger and less religious voters, it may backfire partly because the profanity the candidates use may not have much impact.

Overcoming opposition from companies making high-interest loans, the state Legislature was poised to give final approval Friday to a bill to cap interest rates on installment loans between $2,500 and $10,000.

There’s been an uptick in swearing among candidates for president. If it’s a strategy to attract younger and less religious voters, it may backfire partly because the profanity the candidates use may not have much impact.

Will California show the nation how to take on the enormous problem of single-use plastic or will it chicken out under threats from an industry that’s happy to continue to fill the world with old water bottles, plastic food wrappers and countless other pieces of disposable plastic?

The spineless school bureaucrats who fired tennis coach Aaron Persky because of his lenient ruling in a sex assault case when he was a judge is helping turn the quest for justice into mob rule, the law into a popularity contest and the independent judiciary into an endangered species.

Companies know that many communities are hungry for jobs and economic development, and online retailers are playing cities against each other to try and get the biggest tax break. The public gets shortchanged.